Employment after Childbearing in Post-War Britain: Cohort-Study Evidence on Contrasts within and across Generations

In post-war Britain, mothers have been returning to the labour-market after diminishing breaks around childbearing. Longitudinal data, mainly from two generations in the National Survey of the 1946 cohort, are used to describe and help explain the trend. Class and regional differences diminish over...

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description In post-war Britain, mothers have been returning to the labour-market after diminishing breaks around childbearing. Longitudinal data, mainly from two generations in the National Survey of the 1946 cohort, are used to describe and help explain the trend. Class and regional differences diminish over time, both in simple two-way analyses and in multiple (hazard) regression. Women's education and occupational attainments retain a positive effect on their chances of entering employment over the two generations. The weakening of class differentials is taken to signal a reduction in the income effect of a shifting labour-supply function. Evidence on continuing job downgrading provides a cautionary note on interpreting increased employment as an improvement in female status.
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subjects Childbirth
Children
Cohort analysis
Demography
Developed Countries
Economics
Educational attainment
Educational Status
Employment
Employment statistics
Europe
Family Characteristics
Family Relations
Fertility
Generation differences
Generational Differences
Great Britain
Health hazards
Health Manpower
Health surveys
Labor Force Participation
Labour market
Mothers
Occupations
Parents
Population
Population Dynamics
Post World War II Period
Return to work
Social Class
Socioeconomic Factors
Sociology
Sociology of work
Sociology of work and sociology of organizations
Time Factors
United Kingdom
Women
Working mothers
Working population. Employment. Women's work
Working Women
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